Paul Ortiz is a professor of labor history at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is the author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States and Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, among other books. He is currently writing A Social Movement History of the United States, which will be published by Beacon Press.
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